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[CAYLUS, Anne-Claude, comte de (1692-1765), attribué à].

Lot 57
23.03.2023 15:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 57 | [CAYLUS, Anne-Claude, comte de (1692-1765), attribué à].
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€ 1 000 – 1 500
[CAYLUS, Anne-Claude, comte de (1692-1765), attribué à].

Histoire naturelle du cacao, et du sucre. Paris : d'Houry, 1719.

Édition originale de ce double traité sur le cacao et le sucre.



L'ouvrage est illustré de 6 planches dépliantes représentant les fruits du cacaoyer et les pieds de canne à sucre. On y trouve également les plans gravés d'un moulin à sucre, d'une sucrerie, d'une purgerie et d'une étuve à sucre. L'ouvrage est attribué sans fondement au comte de Caylus. Barbier, Anonymes, II, 818 ("par D. Quélus ou de Chélus") ; Vicaire, 444 (par Caïlus ; "on trouve dans cet ouvrage [...] les diverses manières de préparer le chocolat et la recette du cacao en confitures") ; Cagle, 1093 (par D. de Quélus).



In-12 (157 x 88 mm). Illustré de 6 planches gravées, dont 4 dépliantes. Annotation manuscrite ancienne à l'encre en marge du feuillet i3r (quelques rousseurs et taches éparses, petite déchirure en marge du feuillet s1). Reliure de l'époque : veau, filets à froid en encadrement des plats, dos à nerfs, pièce de titre en maroquin rouge (reliure restaurée).



First edition of this work gathering two treatises on cocoa and sugar, illustrated with 6 plates, this copy in a calf period-binding.

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